Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-14

OF Montreal, and from the bottom 0f my
heart do, for the extraordinary kindness
have received since entered this beauti-
ful city. both from those who agree with
my views and from all those who differ with
me. desire to tackle the question why l
have come to Canada, to ask a hearing and
to ask your sympathy. I will tell you in
other words-because the people OF Luggo-
curran, far away in Ireland, are desolate
tonight, and because the man who is res
ponsible for it is here in the highest post OF
honor in this great free land. l am a stran-
ger, no doubt, and Lord Lansdowne
1sA VERY GREAT, RICH LORD,
but, judging from the feeling have expert
enced in Montreal to-day. I don't think
there is any need of apology for coming
here in our hour of need to claim your SYM
pathy and your assistance to save the suf-
fering tenantry of Ireland from extermina-
tion, and determination by money and the
Canadian Governor-General. 1t is no
pleasure to us to worry you with our griev-
ances, but where else are we to turn when
Lord Lansdowne sends soldiers and armed
police to dispossess every tenant in Luggo-
curran and
FLING THE OLD MEN AND THE LITTLE CHILL
into the bitches. Our enemies are not con-
tent with disarming in physical sense, the
Tory Government are passing the Coercion
bill through Parliament at this moment
to disarm us of our orga anization; to break
down the only protection the tenantry OF
Ireland have left, to place us on plank
bed if we attempt to appeal to public opin-
ion against the crued deeds OF Lord Lans-
downe. The whole country may be swept
clear and plunged into wrechedness and
sorrow, but it will he crime for us to
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in q newspaper denounciug it. Where are
we to turn, if not to public opinion OF kin
dred lands, or is it to be crime also for us
to appeal to you, our countrymen and our
kindred. YCu can save the tenantry OF
Luggocurran, and you alone can save them
from the fate that overlook perhaps the
father of many a man listening to me. long
ago, in great clearances, when,the landlords
had it all their own way; and ii we
come to Canada to ask you to befriend
US and
TO SAVE OUR PEOPLE,
it is because this is not the first time Can
ada has stood between the Irish people
aud their oppressors. Our great leader,
Parnell. has said he never again would beg
the world for aims for Irish landlordism.
We are now begging, not Tor aims, but for
aid to enable us to uproot that whole sys-
TEN of landlordism. We do not come to
ask for ESQ, 900 for charity any more, but
to ask you to consider what use Lord
Lansdowne is making of the $4,000 a
year which you give him, or which you ena-
BILE him to get, and if that be put to bad
and inhuman use. we ask you to convey
your censure on Landsdowne, as you have
a perfect right to do as the free citizens of a
self-governing nation. The day you
SEND LANsDowNE HOME
with the stamp of Canadian disaffection on
his brow, you will enable us to laugh at
coercion and strengthen the arm of Glad
stone to put an end to evictions for all
time.
Mr.. O'Brien then quoted from lengthy
report in the Dublin Freeman's Journal OF
evictions on Lord Lansdowne's estates.
He then described the incidents attending
some evictions. He said tenants were
THROWN OUT OF THEIR CABINS
helpless in the snow and rain. He proceed
ed: 1.-THE Luggocurran tenants were hon
est, peaceful and inoffensive. So far as
crime is concerned, the locality is simply
stainless. During these barbarous evictlons
not q blow was struck, not stone v as
flung, nor have these people done ought
that they should deserve to be robbed OF
home and land. call on you to free the
Lansdowne and the world know that when
Canada stretches out an arr to-lreland it
is not to wonder CT subjugat.' aer, but to
save her."
O'Brien closed with q glowing picture of
Irelapd's gratitude to Canada when home
rule should be achieved, and was cheered
again and again.
THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED.
"Reso1ved, that this meeting OF citizens of
Montreal is of the opinion that Lord Lans-
downe's contemplated depopulation of his
Luggocurran estate is unjust, cruel and
oppressive, and deserves the condemnation
of the Canadian.
O'Brien will speak in Quebec on May 18th,
in Kingston on the 18th, in Toronto on
the 18th and Ottawa on the 10th.
Lord Lansdowne is in Toronto to-day
where he is being feted and welcomed and
many persons here express the opinion that
when O'Brien reaches there and again at
Kingston the Orangemen will try to raise
disturbances.